Plinies Naturall Hiftdrie. 



A beafls and other living creatures have an appetite to engender, but the earth alfb, and all \ht 

 plants thereuponjare much more luftie and hote that way. And therefore to make iheni to con- 

 ceive in due leafon^the time would be well obferved^when they bee asit were in love, and dcfire 

 thea(5tof generation.And not oncly in the earth and trees therein plantedjis this to bee feene, 

 but in grafts and ftockes aUo particularly by themfelves, {incefhot they have a mutuall and re- 

 IpedivcappetitejOne to joine & incorporat with theodier.They tha; make choife oft he Spring 

 for this purpofejbegin to put them as it were together for to en,gen4^r3pre{ently after the /'Equi- ; 

 nosSliall 5 giving out in cheieplainetcarmesjthatttecs then arc broodie and rcadictoput foorth 

 fprouts; which is the reafon, that their barkes at fuch a time will knit and joine together eafily. 

 But fuch as prefcrre the Autumnc before the Spring^fall to this bufineflc inimediarely upon th^c 



B rifihg of the ftar Ar6turus j for then they fuppolejthat plants will take root forthwith , and by tl]^ 

 time that the Spring is comc,they will bee better prepared to put fdyth luftijy : confidcring that , 

 their vertue isnotftreightwaies fpcnt in budding, .but rather emploied in taking good roou 

 Howbeifjfome trees there be tha;: have their let times and leafons of. the ysare iiniiitedjwhether . 

 it be to plant or to graffe : and the fame indifferently in all places, as namely, Cherric'trecs and . 

 Almond trees about themidwinter. B ut for the mod part,the jQtuaiion of the place will be able 

 to guide and order all this matterbeft : for cold and waterifti grounds ought to bcplanted in die . 

 Spring'jbut diie and hotejin the Autumne.With our peafants here in ItaJiejit is ordinarie to de*^ 

 vide their times and feafons for planting in this aiannetfollowing,They fet out for the Mulbcrie 

 all the time from the Ides of Februarie to the fpring Equinox : for the Peare tree they allow the 



Q AurumnCjand ib forward until! fifteene dales before the point of midwinter^ and no longer : for 

 Summer Apples and Quinces, for Servifcs likewife and Ptums^ they aifignc the fpace betwcene 

 the Winter tropicke or Sunneikadjand the Ides of Februarie. A^for Carobcs of Greece, and 

 Peach.-trees, they have all the Autumne and the whole yeare before them untill mid-winter ap- 

 proch.All Nut trees^asnamelyjVVahiut trees, Pine trees, Filberds.riazclSjandCheftnut treesj 

 would be plan ted from betwecne the firft day of March ^and the fifteenth thereof. To conclidcj 

 the oncly time for VViilowes Si BroomCjis about the Galends or beginning of the fame March. 

 But of ihele twolalinanjedjthe Broomelovcthto beletof nource-piantSjCommingof feedjin 

 drie and lightgrounds jbut Gontrariwifejthc Willow to be fct of twigs in moid placesjaccording 

 as we have before faid.. j.ioibitija • 



, Chap, Jj'i^^i 



^^ Whaj: trees thej he that love to fort afjdhejecompme t ogelher. The skill. .nd feat of 



h^nngtherooti(ftnesymd(dfofi}diingorl?ix^^^^^ i^. 



THere is befidesancw manner of grafting tree^jwhich 1 will not overpalTs : for my purpoR 

 -isiioE willingly to omit oughtjthat- 1 have found in any books as toiichmg this argument. 

 'A.ndC£f/.v/'/?^-;/45ashimfelfeatfirmechjWas thefirif dcviler thcreof^^namclyjtoconjoinetre.cs^ 

 of diverfc natureSjand fuch as otberwife cannot abide fociecie ai-id feilov\i"hip togeihcrjas for ex% 

 amplejFig treesand Olive trees. He,! lay^would haveaFig tree to bee planted ncarc unto an p*j 

 E livcjand fo neare indeed,as that a bough or braunch of the Olive may reach unto the Fig tree at 

 cafeyconfidtrang that it is very fupple and pliable otherwifejandreadie to follow and bee led as, 

 a man would kave it : and yet as obedient as it isj bee would have it ever and anone to be haiir 

 ■ dicdandmade gent!e.iiV the ineane. time, that by this meanes inured firll:, it may be bent and 

 boWed tothc purpofe when the time ferves. Which done, after that the Figgc tree hath gotten 

 forae lirtngth, andisgrownc to fufficiau bigneire for to beare a graffe (which orduiarily is at 

 three yearcs eqd,or at the utaioft when it is five y earcs old)ihc head thereof muft bee cut or faw- 

 cd off, and then the brauifch or bough of the Olive beforefaid, beeing wellcleanled and made 

 neatyan'dfhe headctid thereof (as is b€fbt€faid)thwit£d and fcraped iharpe^ howbeit, notyec 

 cut from the mother ftocke, .mulf beejfet faft in the (hanke of the Figge tree, where it muff bee 

 IB; kept well and liircly tied with bands, for feare, that thus beeing forced and gtaffcd arch-wife, 

 it ftartand flurt nbcoutagaine, and:r«tiiirne. tothe owne. Thus beeingof amixt and mcane 

 nature^ betweene a braunch or bough growing ftill unto the tree, and yet laid in the ground to 

 take nev9 foot j.and;^nicHpe orfipEhgraScd, foithe fpaccof three yeares it is fuffered to feed 

 jind 'grow, indiifercntly.bfitwQene- two n^othcrs, or rather by the nieanes thereof, two mothcr- 

 • - ^ ftockes 



